Can anyone give me any tips on dealing with 30k or so worth of songs?
I have a client who has a HUGE CD collection and wants to take the cream
of the crop and put them on a 250gig or 300gig HD for his listening
pleasure.
Hmmm. Two things spring to mind:
1. File format
You'll presumably be using mp3 as flac would take up much more space than 250/300GB. As an example, my "Non-Classical" directory with 6437 songs is 161GB. Transcoded to mp2 (for my iPod) this shrinks to 36GB. So, on average, that's 25.5MB per track for flac and 5.7MB per track for mp3 (I encode using lame --preset-standard).
Using these figures, 30k tracks would take up 767230MB for flac or 170389MB for mp3.
2. Backup
How are you going to back this up? Your client won't be very pleased if his HDD dies and everything will have to be re-ripped.
I'm presuming you don't want to get involved in RAID and/or expesive large capacity tape devices for backup.
With that in mind, two options spring to mind:
a. Buy three HDDs instead of just one and simply copy the music across all three discs. Give your client one and keep the other two in safe, geographically separate locations.
b. Use a ripping service that takes your CDs, rips them, and sends them back to you on DVD. The DVDs are your backup.
I'm hoping the 6.0 release will ease up the time it takes to search and
generate large playlists. Is there any danger of filling the disc that
contains the music library, yes we're using iTunes, completely? Does the
slimserver need space to store data?
Will I need to even use the iTunes library with 6.0? It seems like the slimserver will have its own db of songs, no?
I don't use iTunes with slimserver so I can't help here.
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
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